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UC OSPO

Amplifying Research Impact through Open Source

The UCSC Open Source Program Office (OSPO) and the UC OSPO Network supports open source work throughout the University of California system. Beginning in 2022, the UCSC OSPO took over the programmatic responsibilities of the UCSC Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS), including mentorship activities such as GSoC. The UCSC OSPO creates partnerships with stakeholders within and outside the UC system in order to help students learn from open source communities, support scientists in using open source to accelerate research efforts, and connect students and scientists with sponsors from industry, government, and foundations. The OSPO helps bridge the gap between academic research and successful open source projects by promoting innovative projects maintained by UC-affiliated scientists and researchers. We support the transfer of cutting-edge technology resulting from UC-originating research to industry via successful open source projects. Due to the multi-campus nature of our current efforts, the projects we support and promote cover a wide range of topics and technologies - including: - Open Source Hardware and Chip Design - AI / Machine Learning - Storage Systems and …

  • python
  • javascript
  • c/c++
  • machine learning
  • pytorch
  • education
  • bioinformatics
  • data science
  • AI/ML
  • research software

Project ideas

41 ideas on its 2026 ideas page; of the 41 that state a difficulty: 2 easy, 17 medium, 22 hard. Sizes: 11 medium, 30 large. 23 mentors named.

  1. Agent4Target: An Agent-based Evidence Aggregation Toolkit for Therapeutic Target Identification large hard
  2. AI Data Readiness Inspector (AIDRIN) large medium
  3. CauST: Causal Gene Intervention for Robust Spatial Domain Identification large hard
  4. Drishti large medium
  5. EnergyAPI: An End-to-End API for Energy-Aware Forecasting and Scheduling large medium
  6. ENTS I: Usability improvements for visualization dashboard large medium
  7. ENTS II: Migration to TockOS large hard
  8. HistoMoE: A Histology-Guided Mixture-of-Experts Framework for Gene Expression Prediction large hard
  9. Advanced LMS Support medium medium
  10. New LMS Support: Brightspace large hard
  11. LLM Detection large hard
  12. Code Analysis GUI medium easy
  13. Web GUI medium easy
  14. NeuroHealth large hard
  15. NETAI / LLM Integration & Kubernetes Chatbot large hard
  16. NETAI / Network Anomaly Detection Models large hard
  17. NETAI / Predictive Analytics & Forecasting large hard
  18. NETAI / Kubernetes Deployment & Infrastructure large hard
  19. Develop a User-Centric Website for NSB large medium
  20. Improve the User Experience of NSB medium medium
  21. Create a Network-in-a-Box Experience with NSB large hard
  22. Implement Networked System Models to Evaluate Quality of NSB large hard
  23. Model Autonomous Vehicle Networks to Drive New Feature Development in NSB large hard
  24. NeuroHealth large hard
  25. Omni-ST: Instruction-Driven Any-to-Any Multimodal Modeling for Spatial Transcriptomics large hard
  26. Implement P2P Extension Store medium medium
  27. Backup & Restore System (P2P JSON + Tabs Restore) medium medium
  28. Canvas Import medium medium
  29. Google Forms Export medium medium
  30. Reconfigurable and Placement-Aware Replication for Edge Systems large hard
  31. Reproducible CXL Emulation for Multi-Host Memory Systems large medium
  32. Exploring Security and Isolation in CXL-Based Memory Systems large medium
  33. Extensions to the Scenic Driving Domain medium medium
  34. Interfacing Scenic to New Simulators medium medium
  35. Tool to Visualize Scenario Distributions medium medium
  36. StaR: A Stability-Aware Representation Learning Framework for Spatial Domain Identification large hard
  37. StatWrap large medium
  38. VINE / Data Pipeline & Integration large hard
  39. VINE / AI/ML Models for Agricultural Analytics on NRP large hard
  40. VINE / Digital Twin & AI-Driven Visualization large hard

Read the ideas page. Ideas are for scope reference; never copy one into a proposal.

History

In GSoC since 2023, 4 years. Projects per year: '23: 14, '24: 16, '25: 15, '26: 15.

On GitHub

2 repositories pushed to in the last year. Main languages: HTML (1), Python (1).

Links and channels

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git-into-gsoc repos "UC OSPO"
git-into-gsoc issues --org "UC OSPO"
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newcomers' pull requests, and which beginner
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